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Lena Henningsen’s Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China
Song & Dance Man is an established classic, available again for Dylan fans and scholars alike on
Steven Swarbrick talks about poetic engagement with nature in the work of early modern poets Edmun
The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Part 2 addresses the play's central questions about comedy, tragedy, and passion by examining its la
Robert Coover spoke at the Institute in the spring of 2006. Coover is the author of over a dozen pos
In this interview Mary M. McGlynn, Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, discusses her new b
Despite initiatives to 'diversify' the publishing sector, there has been almost no transformation to
What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century?
Abbas is just seventeen years old when his gifts as a woodcarver come to the attention of Tipu Sulta
Way back in 2019, Elizabeth and John were already thinking about collaboration. Here they speak with
In Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques (Princeton UP, 20
Aminatta Forna, author of Ancestor Stones (2006), Happiness (2018), and most recently The Window Sea
Today I talked to Mark Staff Brandl about his new book A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contempora
After the publication of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), the poetics of incitement— foun
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most popular romantic comedies. At the same time,
Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism (MIT Press, 2022), edited by Roy Christophe
Life on Grub Street can be challenging, but it’s not without attendant attractions. One of those is
Essays on speculative/science fiction explore the futures that feed our most cherished fantasies and
Yoshiko Okuyama's book Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health (Palgrave M
